Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\nIreland’s historic weekend continued as they inflicted a first T20 series defeat on India since 2023 with a dramatic one-run victory at Stormont. <\/p>\n
After a first-ever win over India by 34 runs on Friday, Ireland stunned the world champions for a second time as Jai Moondra and Matthew Hollard starred with three wickets each.<\/p>\n
A late charge from India left the visitors requiring eight off the final two balls in a grandstand finish but Harshit Rana was caught by Tim Tector, bowled by his brother Harry, with the penultimate ball to secure a historic victory. <\/p>\n
On Friday, a day many had expected and hoped for India’s 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi to make his record-breaking international debut, Ireland stunned the T20 world champions to kickstart a historic weekend. <\/p>\n
It was a first win over India in any format in 12 attempts, and at the ninth time of asking in T20s.<\/p>\n
Then, just 24 hours later, Ireland won their first-ever match at the Women’s T20 World Cup in England.<\/p>\n
But things would get even better on Sunday. <\/p>\n
The 4,000-strong, sold-out crowd at Stormont were left disappointed as Sooryavanshi was again on the sidelines for the second T20, and an Indian response was expected. <\/p>\n
They are, after all, world champions – and scorned ones at that.<\/p>\n
On his 100th cap, Harry Tector was Ireland’s top scorer with 53 as India restricted the hosts to 154-8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Second T20 international, Stormont Ireland 154-8 (20 overs): H Tector 53 (47), Calitz 37 (23); P Yadav 3-22…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-766447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}